Words of Grace

Jesus and his disciples were in the city of Jerusalem. As they were looking at the buildings of the temple, Jesus predicted: “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” (Matthew 24:1, 2) 

This all came to pass in the year 70 A.D. The disciples had asked Jesus when this would come to pass, and then they wondered about the signs of his coming, and of the end of the age. (V.3) 

Jesus told them about wars and rumors of wars, with nations and kingdoms rising against each other. He said that there would be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in diverse places. 

These things would be just the beginning of sorrows, he said. And then “iniquity shall abound.” In other words, sin would increase more and more. 

Paul wrote about the last days as being perilous times. (II Timothy 3:1) Evil would become “worse and worse.” (V. 13) 

In Greek mythology, Hydra was a nine-headed monster. When any one of its nine heads was cut off, it was succeeded by two others. 

There is a type of evil that is referred to as hydra- headed. A hydra-headed evil is one which, if it is overcome in one case, breaks out in several other places. 

The Bible says that where sin abounds, grace does abound much more. (Romans 5:20) As Julia Johnston writes: 

“Grace, grace, God’s grace, Grace that is greater than all our sin.”